BALTIMORE -- While the use of asbestos peaked about 40 years ago, the number of cases of the rare but deadly cancer it causes has not declined.

Every year, doctors diagnose about 3,000 new cases of mesothelioma after patients come in with a cough, fever, fatigue, excessive sweating and pain in the chest. In most cases the disease already has ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The total amount America spends on health care will rise modestly over the next decade, continuing a trend that began during the recession, according to new projections from government economists.

However, national health spending is still expected to outpace economic growth, threatening to make medical care increasingly ...Read more

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The molecular makeup of brain tumors can be used to sort patients with gliomas into five categories, each with different clinical features and outcomes, researchers at Mayo Clinic and the University of California San Francisco have shown. The finding could change the methods that physicians rely on to determine prognosis and ...Read more

It's been documented that many terminal cancer patients don't benefit from chemotherapy and other types of treatments toward the end of their lives. Nonetheless, many, with their doctors, opt to continue treatment -- faced with impossible choices, they hold on to hope that treatment might buy some time, or improve the quality of the days they ...Read more

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has eliminated fatal mitochondrial DNA mutations in stem cells from patients with mitochondrial diseases. The study is published in a recent online issue of Nature as a collaboration between some of the nation's top institutions and Mayo Clinic's Center for Regenerative Medicine.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 people die from liver disease each year, according to the American Liver Foundation. For people who experience acute liver failure, the only proven treatment has been liver transplantation. Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed and are testing an alternative to liver transplantation called ...Read more

Ryan Brown refuses to let his medical challenges limit the possibilities of his future.

"You have scientists and statistics that say it's very rare to get a second transplant, and it is," Brown said. "But it's very rare to be not normal, and being not normal -- whether you're autistic, or you have ADHD, or any problem; yeah, its a crutch ...Read more

Opioid painkiller addiction and accidental overdoses have become far too common across the United States. To try to identify who is most at risk, Mayo Clinic researchers studied how many patients prescribed an opioid painkiller for the first time progressed to long-term prescriptions. The answer: 1 in 4. People with histories of tobacco use ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Tex. -- Still weak after suffering a massive heart attack, Paula Mota learned last year that her health was worse than she thought.

Doctors discovered that the 58-year-old Arlington woman also had tumors throughout her body. A home visit pilot program by the Arlington Fire Department is helping both her spirits and her health, said ...Read more

SACRAMENTO -- Depression lifted from Nick O'Madden's life like a set of foggy glasses being wiped clean.

Earlier this summer, O'Madden, 31, felt he was living in a distracted haze, sprinkled with nighttime panic attacks. Now, after undergoing an emerging high-tech treatment involving magnetic currents, he said he's literally seeing the world in...Read more